Vocabulary
- depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
- have to: Must do
- to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
- inside of: Within; in the inner part of.
- go to town: To do something enthusiastically and thoroughly.
- on the air: Being broadcast on radio or television.
- on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
- at sea
- on to: Toward something; forward
- used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
- at least: As a minimum
- at ease
- stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
- subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
- physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
- experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
- basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
- average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
- evolve: To develop certain features
- bacteria: The very small creatures that can cause disease
- stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
- environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
- atmosphere: Air around us
- filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
- roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
- pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
- absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
- fart: To break wind; to emit gas from the anus
- tiny: Very, very small
- response: Something said/written as an answer to something
- intestine: Long tube in the body for digesting food
- journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
- ease: To make something less difficult, tight, stressed
- alter: To change so (clothing) fits better
- comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
- dense: Very thick and difficult to see, get through
- expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
- release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
- volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
- introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
- create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
- digest: To convert food into energy in your stomach
- sniff: To detect something, e.g. a potential problem
- cabin: Small basic wooden home in the countryside
- mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
- altitude: Height of something above sea level
- honest: Good, truthful, sincere, or faithful; trustworthy
- oxygen: A gas in the air that we need to breathe
- ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
- trace: To make an outline to determine a shape
- suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
- normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
- depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
- leave: To go away from; depart
- pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
- gastrointestinal: Concerning, affecting, or including both stomach and intestines
- tract: A system of body parts or organs that has a particular function (e.g., digestive tract).
- build: Your physical shape; physique
- boom: Very fast increase in growth or popularity
- yeast: A single-celled fungi used to make bread and beer
- question: To ask for or try to get information
- person: Man, woman or child
- bloated: To cause to swell up or inflate with gas or liquid
- charcoal: Burnt wood used for fuel/drawing
- twitter: To make small chattering sounds, like some birds
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She took a brave step forward, leaving behind her comfort zone to chase her dreams.
Vocabulary
- brave
adj. Having courage
- comfort zone
phr. A familiar situation where one feels safe
Explanation
a brave step is a noun phrase, where brave is an adjective modifying the noun step, meaning "a courageous step".
forward is an adverb modifying step, meaning "ahead".
The whole phrase serves as the object, answering the "what" of took (verb) — she took a brave step forward.
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brave
US/brev/
UK/breɪv/
adj.Brave
v.t.To bravely face
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